5. Wonder Where My Easy Riders Gone
From a recording by Mance Lipscomb. Ive loved his music for years.

6. Big Road BluesIn the backyard of friends is the remnant of an old country lane. Its
just a fragment,
just a suggestion, but if you stand there for a while and look at it just right
you can almost feel
yourself drifting back into time...down that sunny road and gone. 

7. In My Girlish Days
Sometimes people ask me if I wrote this song. No, it was Memphis Minnie.
My girlish days werent quite this adventurous.

8. The Panic is On
A humorous look at hard times. The details are a bit dated, but the situation
and the sentiments are timeless.

9. Suns Gonna Shine One Day
Written by Flora Molton, who sang what she called spiritual
and truth music on the streets of Washington DC until her death at age
82 in 1990. Both Phil
Wiggins and I played with Flora, though at different times, and here we team
up to do one of her
songs. It was written during the Vietnam war, and was originally called Suns
Gonna Shine in
Vietnam One Day. I played with Flora in the 1980s, and at that time I
thought the song was really good
but dated - after all, Vietnam had been over for quite a while. Unfortunately,
I was wrong. Songs
like this will always be relevant somewhere in the world. The guitar accompaniment
in open G was
arranged by the late Ed Morris, Floras first music partner, and I do my
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